August (movie)

It was more than 50 years ago that singer Darlene Love had her biggest hit, the 1962 girl-group song “He’s a Rebel” with The Crystals, and her last hit, the 1963 holiday hit “Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).”

Yet in a recent phone call from her home in New York City, the 76-year-old Love says her “career is bigger today than it was when I recorded those songs.”

It’s largely because of the 2013 Academy Award-winning documentary “20 Feet From Stardom,” which chronicled the careers of back-up singers, particularly Love, who despite those early hits had to support such stars as Elvis and Tom Jones to maintain a singing career.

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